Focus Areas
Working towards global reproductive choice; autonomy and empowerment; and gender equality.
Commitment Makers
Creating a future for women and girls with the freedom and ability to lead healthy lives.
Reproductive Health Matters discusses family planning in humanitarian crises with Hennia Dakkak, Senior Technical Advisor, UNFPA from the International Family Planning Conference held in Kigali from 12-15 November 2018.
Reproductive Health Matters discusses family planning in humanitarian crises with Bill Powell and Dr Sayed Rubayet of IPAS from the International Family Planning Conference held in Kigali from 12-15 November 2018.
Reproductive Health Matters discusses family planning in humanitarian crises with Jennifer Schlecht, Senior Advisor, Emergency Preparedness and Response for Family Planning 2020 from the International Family Planning Conference held in Kigali from 12-15 November 2018.
Reproductive Health Matters discusses family planning in humanitarian crises with Stanis Ngarukiye, Health and Nutrition Program Manager, Save the Children, Rwanda from the International Family Planning Conference held in Kigali from 12-15 November 2018.
In October, not just one but two high-level reports on climate change warned that the world’s nations are falling short of what’s needed to keep the Earth from overheating dangerously — to the point that it’s time to literally pull carbon dioxide out of the air on a massive scale. Neither report, however, mentioned an opportunity that could help both to constrain emissions and to scrub out some of that carbon: removing barriers to the voluntary use of family planning.
For more than a quarter of a century, scientists have wondered whether one of the world’s most widely used contraceptives could be helping to fuel HIV infections among young women.
At a time of unprecedented importance for women’s health and rights, I am heartened to see how the global family planning community is working together as never before to ensure women are able to plan if and when to have a child—to live the lives they have dreamed for themselves.
Mothers should wait at least a year between giving birth and getting pregnant again to reduce health risks to mother and baby, a new study says. But researchers say they need not wait as long as the 18 months recommended in the current World Health Organization guidelines.
The House of Representatives has unanimously passed the Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health Rights Bill. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health and Population Upendra Yadav had presented a proposal seeking passage of the bill in the meeting of the lower house of the Federal Parliament.
